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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel panic (stty) 2.0-950412SNAP
Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:00:44 +0200
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Ed Randall <erandall@reo.dec.com> wrote:
>I wonder if anyone's seen this :
>
>First thing after a reboot, type :
>$ stty -a -f /dev/cuaia0
>(I happened to do it as "root", dunno if that makes a difference)
>
>The result I get is :
>Fatal trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode
>Fault virtual address = 0x80
It's a known (and fixed) problem. There used to be a workaround for
this, but i forgot what it is. I think you need to do some other
action on the tty first, perhaps an `stty' on the regular device (not
the lock device), just to initialize some kernel-internal structure.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)